Quotes About Surrender

sodan laki on uhrautumisen laki. Uhrautumisessa veri virtaa joko kaulalla tai käsissä.

Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.

He did not know what resignation meant. He who resigned, he thought, lost his right to live.

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

In meditation, we have to give ourselves totally, with no holding back. Whatever meditation subject we have chosen, we must become immersed in it;

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

The surrender of something attained heroically and at great cost — something to which the well-being of entire generations has been sacrificed — is far more dangerous to a government than not having it to begin with.

For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.

I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

I'm a great believer in the idea that if it's meant to be, it will be.

The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.

Johann Kleist: If something is waiting for me in that midnight thicket, it can have me soon enough. To be claimed by that primal darkness, to be swallowed up, to cease: the thought of it is bliss to me.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. —Proverbs 3:5–6

When we turn our situations over to God, He sometimes answers in subtle ways. — Jean Ann Williams —

Obeying God's commands means living where He puts us. — Leta Deering